Management

Peregrine Newton

As Joint Chairman and CEO, Peregrine’s role comprises three key areas: leading, effectively managing and providing clear direction for the company. His responsibilities include promoting the highest standards of corporate governance and addressing the developing needs of the company, with a view to enhancing the overall effectiveness of the business. In his capacity as CEO, Peregrine manages general functions, implements strategy and provides financial evaluation and control. He leads the management team and the employees and ensures the profitable growth and overall success of the business.

Peregrine’s business skills have been effectively honed over many years by acquiring, cultivating and growing successful companies. Most recently, he was involved in the strategic development of Nettec plc, a systems integrator specialising in content management systems and corporate portals. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in April 2000 and raised a value in excess of £50m. Previously Peregrine has been Chairman of a number of communications companies. Earlier in his career, he founded Pagebourne Publishing, which went on to publish a number of leading and well respected fashion industry publications.

Steven Joseph, Joint Chairman

Steven Joseph founded The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd alongside Peregrine Newton and is Joint Chairman.  He shares with Peregrine the role of leading, effectively managing and providing a clear direction for the company.

Steven has an extensive background in finance and business management. In the past 15 years he has invested in, developed and sold a number of businesses.  His recent successes have included his involvement, as Chairman, in the profitable realisation of investments in Portfolio Foods Ltd (sold to Cadbury in 1996), Decorative Sleeves Ltd (sold to ITW of the US in 2000), C Shippam Ltd (sold to Princes Foods in 2001), Blagden Packaging NV (sold to Alchemy Partners in 2004) and British Pepper & Spice Ltd (sold to SHS Distribution in 2004).

Steven’s earlier career included a range of financial roles: with Continental Group Inc – at the time the world’s largest consumer products packaging company – and as a manager for acquisitions and strategic consulting with Bain & Company.

Steven holds a BSc Honours in Physics from Bristol University and an MSc in Business Administration from the London School of Business.

David Hughes

A chartered certified accountant and graduate of Bristol University with a first class degree in Chemistry.  David has extensive experience of investing in and supporting the development of both private and public companies across a variety of sectors and also achieving successful exits through sale or listing. Besides providing development capital for growing technology based companies, David has backed both MBOs and MBIs and funded acquisitions. He is a director on the board of a number of Foresight Venture Partners' investee companies.  David has some 32 years' venture capital and corporate finance experience gained principally at 3i.  He has also worked at Framlington, Bank Austria and
most recently at Advent Venture Partners.

Jean-Loup Brousse de Gersigny

Jean-Loup has an MBA from London Business School and after a banking career founded Intermediate Capital Group plc ( ICG ) in 1988. He built it up with his partners to become the largest independent mezzanine institution in Europe with over Euro 8 Bn under management. As a founder of ICG and a professional investor in the Private Equity space, Jean-Loup has accumulated a wealth of  board level experience in the assessment, analysis and development of businesses in a multitude of sectors across Europe.

Jean-Loup recognized early on the potential of the market for Ultra secure hosting and managed services and provided much of the original entrepreneurial and financial backing which financed the acquisition and development of the business of The Bunker since 2004. Jean-Loup maintains a very strong interest in the company, is an active member of the board and  continues to provide the board with the insight and experience he has gained as a professional investor.

 Jean-Loup managed ICG until 2004 when he retired from the board. In addition to his major involvement with The Bunker, Jean-Loup is now advisor/ director of a few Private Equity funds in a non-executive capacity and has a number of other Private Equity investments in companies where he is also a member of the board.

Director of Security, Ben Laurie

Ben Laurie is acknowledged as one of the foremost computer security experts in the world.  He is the creator of Apache-SSL – the web’s de-facto secure web server application, and a core team member of Open SSL – the world’s most widely used cryptographic library.  He is author of ‘Apache: The Definitive Guide,’ is a founding director of Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and the Head of the ASF Security Team.

Director, Adam Laurie

Director of Managed Services, Paul Lightfoot

Paul is responsible for the development of The Bunker Managed Services division heading up a dedicated team of experienced sales, technical pre-sales and marketing professionals. Previously The Bunker Technical Services Director Paul boasts a wealth of knowledge and experience of Bunker operations across all sites, including implementation and maintenance of company security and technology. Prior to joining The Bunker’s management team, Paul served for 15 years in the Royal Air Force in secure communications and IT based roles.

Technical Architect, Dr Matthew Seaman

Dr Matthew Seaman manages a team of eight engineers to provide 24x7 support service for Bunker systems.  Matthew is also responsible for design and implementation of complex customer installations, and provision, management and monitoring of a wide spectrum of Bunker systems, from high availability firewalls to database servers with terabyte scale disk arrays. Matthew specialises in high-performance, secure web applications and makes regular contributions to key open-source projects including FreeBSD.  Prior to joining The Bunker, Matthew founded successful UK startup Cryptosphere that provided PKIX services and cryptographically-secured, verifiable data transmission for a range of UK clients.

Technical Services Director, Brett Perfrement, who manages The Bunker's technical teams, has spent over 10 years in the Internet Industry and has been with The Bunker since 2005. Prior to The Bunker, Brett was the Internet Technical Manager at Telewest running some of their national business and consumer network and systems platforms for Blueyonder and Telewest Business.

Finance Director, Andy Theodorou

The Bunker's management team is rounded off by Finance Director Andy Theodorou.  Andy has over 10 years financial and commercial operations experience within the design, communication and technology sectors.  In addition, he has been extensively involved in various acquisitions and disposals and management buy-ins, working closely with Peregrine Newton over this time.

Prior to joining The Bunker, Andy held the post of Financial Controller for Nettec plc.  During his tenure at Nettec, Andy spent much of his time building and overseeing the managed services business unit from a financial and commercial perspective, as well as providing financial direction and controls for the sales process.

Andy’s role at The Bunker is to strengthen the overall financial function and to enable the proposed rapid growth to be achieved with strict financial control and discipline.